What we didn’t blog lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Christopher Joye on The Australian‘s War on Everything: and sundry other stuff
The Australian has been indulging itself in a spot of end of year defensive triumphalism, filling almost an entire page of its paper edition with quotes from Bernard Keane and Laura Tingle apparently proving that “Dennis Shanahan was right!” or [...]
Possum on “The Great Unhinging”
If there was a Walkley award for blogging, I think Possum’s new post – “Let the Great Unhinging begin” – would win by acclamation. The whole piece deserves reading, but I’d highlight this analysis of recent polls: A large proportion [...]
The contest between Gillardism and Abbottism
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
Culture Wars: We have a winner, folks!
… and the prize for most tortuous attempt to diss “the elites” while invoking Aristophanes and Socrates goes to… David Burchell! Judges were impressed with his ability to entirely ignore the irony of indulging in a bit of elite bashing [...]
Federal election 2010: The ghost of culture wars past
Gary Sauer-Thompson at Public Opinion has skewered David Burchell’s latest op/ed, which includes a typification of two different types of voters:
Angela Shanahan's bizarre footnote to the Carr version of the Aarons thesis
Paul Norton has already written at length on Bob Carr’s interpretation of Mark Aarons’ supposed revelations of some leading ALP left figures holding dual membership in the Communist Party of Australia (a claim, it’s important to note, that is flatly [...]
Anna Bligh and Steven Fielding need to go to an Angels concert
And take instruction from the crowd.
Acknowledgement of country 'culture wars'
They’re at it again: Members of the Liberal Party have been creating a minor storm about the matter of Indigenous recognition. In statements made to the Adelaide Advertiser yesterday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott implied that formal recognition of traditional owners [...]
The reception and implementation of the National History Curriculum
A while back, Kevin Rudd proclaimed the history wars over. He may have been right, at least insofar as the combatants left on the field are looking decidely ghostly; witness the non-event of the launch of Keith Windschuttle’s latest tome. [...]
What if they gave a culture war and no one came?
Naomi Parry reviews the reception (and content) of Keith Windschuttle’s new book at New Matilda: Late last year Keith Windschuttle released another book questioning the existence of the stolen generations. But this time, nobody cared. Very few people would be [...]
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